| It was only 21-months after his mother died, in | | | | reminisces throughout, and how about all those |
| October of 1960, at the ripe old age of 88, William | | | | characters he created, he brings them up here and |
| Faulkner would die. Matter of fact, he finished his last | | | | there in the book. Or were they already created, and |
| book, "The Reivers" otherwise known as "The | | | | he just did a little shifting in his family history? We all |
| Thieves," (a witty book indeed), and it was published | | | | know that he did just that, and it made for a lifetime |
| in June of 1962, he died one month later, in July of | | | | of literature he could write about, something he could |
| 1962 of a heart attack (born in 1897). | | | | write about he knew, which the best thing to lecture |
| Funny, when I look at such things, I look at | | | | and write about is. It liberated his world. |
| correlations, especially when they involved | | | | He was of course a drunk, and a womanizer (Joan |
| psychology, art, and coincidences for those I like to | | | | and Meta and his wife can attest to that), nothing |
| study. | | | | new; and his brother, his older brother was closer to |
| I've read all his books (prefer: "Soldiers Pay" and | | | | his old mother than he, but yet it was he who died |
| "Absalom, Absalom!" to the rest), have most of them | | | | first. He was only 64-years old, not even old enough |
| as first editions, have a signed note by him, dated | | | | to collect his social security. Gave his Nobel Prize |
| 1949, the year he was awarded the Nobel Prize, | | | | winnings to create an award giving committee of |
| although he didn't get it for another year, thereafter. | | | | sort (Pen) Buried in St. Peters Cemetery, in Oxford, |
| So why did he have his papers moved during these | | | | Mississippi, he now belongs to the world. He was a |
| final days from one university to the next. Why did | | | | strange duck was he not. |
| he do what he did, write a book and fill it with | | | | |